Hatchet

vor 1900

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Up until the advent of the use of steel, a European influence, clamshells were an important tool on the Marshall Islands. Typically, a piece of giant clamshell was used as a blade, which was bound to a wooden handle with coconut fibre string. Such hatchets were used for building boats, among other activities.

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